“Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.”

American businessman

Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American businessman known as the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon. He is associated with one of the world’s largest e-commerce and cloud computing companies. He is widely identified with Amazon’s rise and with major influence in business and technology. The available facts also note that he was among the world’s wealthiest people from 2017 to 2021, and that his net worth was estimated at about US$284 billion in 2026.